The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today.
JEAN BAUDRILLARDTelevision knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.
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Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved – commitment to a scenario.
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It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.
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Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.
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The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
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It is always the same: once you are liberated, you are forced to ask who you are.
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Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.
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Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
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We shall never resolve the enigma of the relation between the negative foundations of greatness and that greatness itself.
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This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.
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It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
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Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each.
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Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.
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The order of the world is always right – such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.
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There is no aphrodisiac like innocence.
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Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
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In the same way that we need statesmen to spare us the abjection of exercising power, we need scholars to spare us the abjection of learning.
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The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.
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The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.
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At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
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The world is not dialectical – it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.
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There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room.
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This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other’s heart.
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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